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US 11,956,636 · App. 18/080,184 · Granted Apr 9, 2024

Communication terminal, network device, communication method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

Inventors: Hironori Ito (Tokyo, JP); Anand Raghawa Prasad (Tokyo, JP); Andreas Kunz (Heidelberg, DE); Sivabalan Arumugam (Tamil Nadu, IN); Sivakamy Lakshminarayanan (Tamil Nadu, IN); Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Tamil Nadu, IN)
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
H04W12/106H04W12/037H04W12/041H04W12/08H04W36/14H04W48/18
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Patent No.
US 11,956,636
App. No.
18/080,184
Granted
Apr 9, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A communication terminal ( 10 ) according to the present disclosure includes: a control unit ( 12 ) configured to, in a case of a movement from a communication area formed by the 5GS to a communication area formed by the EPS or a movement from a communication area formed by the EPS to a communication area formed by the 5GS, determine whether or not a communication system forming a communication area at a movement destination can satisfy requirements of services; and a communication unit ( 11 ) configured to, when it is determined that the communication system forming the communication area at the movement destination can satisfy the requirements of the services, send a connection request message to the communication system forming the communication area at the movement destination.

Claims (15)

1. A communication terminal comprising:

at least one processor comprising hardware; and

at least one memory operatively coupled with the at least one processor, wherein

the at least one processor is configured to:

obtain a security context of the communication terminal, and

derive, using information included in the security context of the communication terminal, at least one security key to be used in a second communication network having a second network device operating as an access and mobility management function (AMF) during a handover procedure to handover the communication terminal from a first communication network having a first network device operating as a mobility management entity (MME) to the second communication network,

wherein the security context is obtained after the first network device checks access rights and security capabilities of the communication terminal during the handover procedure, and

wherein the first communication network comprises an evolved packet system (EPS) network and the second communication network comprises a 5th generation system (5GS) network.

2. The communication terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one security key is a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) key for integrity protection or a NAS key for encryption of a NAS message transmitted between the second network device and the communication terminal.

3. A method performed by a communication terminal comprising:

obtaining a security context of the communication terminal, and

deriving, using information included in the security context of the communication terminal, at least one security key to be used in a second communication network having a second network device operating as an access and mobility management function (AMF) during a handover procedure to handover the communication terminal from a first communication network having a first network device operating as a mobility management entity (MME) to the second communication network,

wherein the security context is obtained after the first network device checks access rights and security capabilities of the communication terminal during the handover procedure, and

wherein the first communication network comprises an evolved packet system (EPS) network and the second communication network comprises a 5th generation system (5GS) network.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the at least one security key is a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) key for integrity protection or a NAS key for encryption of a NAS message transmitted between the second network device and the communication terminal.

Priority Claims (1)
IN 201711009358 · Mar 17, 2017 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17201280 · Mar 15, 2021
Continuation 16494600
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